Launched: 19?? (Haven't been able to track down when this
showboat actually started in business - D.)
Area: Ohio and Miss. Rs.
Owner: Captain William (Billy) Bryant
Towboats: 1907, PRINCESS
1919, Mar. Purchased VALLEY BELLE
Later, the NEW LOTUS
Comments: Bryant eventually gave up the showboat and went to doing tent shows.
: The barge which was actually the "showboat" was later turned into a
Wharf boat by a Huntington concern.
Name: CHAPMAN'S FLOATING PALACE
Launched: 1841
Destroyed: 1847, collision
Area: Miss. R.
Owner: Chapman, William
Captain and pilots: Capt. Chapman, William
Comments: Sold to Smith, Sol, Actor.
Name: CHAPMAN'S FLOATING THEATER
Type: Keelboat
Launched: 1831
Area: Miss. R. and Pittsburg
Owner: Chapman, William
Captain and pilots: Capt. Chapman, William
Comments: sold after 1 yr.
Name: CITY OF CLINTON SHOWBOAT
See OMAR
Name: CITY OF PARKERSBURGH SHOWBOAT
See LIBERTY
Name: The Cole Circus Company
Towboat: 1876, Oct,-77, spring, ELLA HUGHES1.Name: COTTON BLOSSOM

Type: Showboat
Owner: 191?-19??, Jan?, Capt. Otto Hitner
Area: 1918: to Mt. Vernon, Ind.
Towboat: 1918, JEWELL (the 2nd one)
Comments: 1918, Jan., the JEWELL was cut down by ice.
: See account of sinking
Name: COTTON BLOSSOM
Comments: From site visitor Doug McGuigan -
Sadly I finally located the Cotton Blossom used in Showboat and many
other MGM movies in the 50's and 60's. MGM sold her to an amusement
park-Worlds of Fun- in Kansas City in the early 70's where she set
in a large pond untill three years ago when the pond was drained and
she was taken apart with bull dozers. A sad end to a pretty lady.

Type: Double barge showboat
Comments: Cushioned chairs for 1,000 people.
: In 1868 John Robinson organized a water carnival and used the 1865 COOSA as towboat.
Ran up the Ohio R. to Rochester, Pa and back down to Charleston,
on the Kanawha R.
: Could this also have been Wild Bill Hickocks Wild West Show? See
Towboats: 1884, Winter, W.P. THOMPSON
Comments: I know, there is a wide time line on this entry.
I can only guess this guy was in show biz for a long time.
Name: Thayer & Noyes Circus
Boat: 1866, CHARLEY BOWEN
Name: SARI originally the JAMES Y LOCKWOOD
Name: WATER QUEEN
Type: Showboat barge
Launched: 1880
Destroyed: 1915?
Area: Miss. and Oh. R.
Owner: Capt. Edwin A. Price, New Martinsville, W. Va.
Captain: Edwin A. Price
Comments: 1901-1927, Dec., Capt. Price's towboat was ARGAND1.Way's Packet Directory, 1848 - 19943.Steamboats in the Valley